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Israel National News: Rabbis to Biden: Restoring terror funding ‘morally repugnant’
Coalition for Jewish Values calls on Democratic candidate to withdraw pledge to resume funding PA while terror payments continue.
The Forward: ‘Racist’ and ‘slanderous’: bystanders to Conference of Presidents vote start sniping, too
The Coalition for Jewish Values, a group of right-wing Orthodox rabbis that is also not part of the Presidents Conference, issued a press release calling the letter an example of “baseless slander, which is the antithesis of the Jewish values the signatories claim to endorse.”
Israel National News: Rabbis call letter from ‘young Jews’ ‘compellingly dishonest and bigoted’
Coalition for Jewish Values rejects letter from 200 ‘young Jews deeply committed to our American Jewish community’ attacking the ZOA.
Baltimore Jewish Life: Rabbinic Group Condemns Letter from “Young Jews” as “Compellingly Dishonest and Bigoted”
The letter, sent to the Chairman, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (COP) consists primarily of vitriolic attacks directed at the president of a COP constituent organization, attacks which the CJV dismissed as false and even bigoted.
Israel National News: Bill de Blasio needs to apologize and fast, rabbis say
CJV rabbinic group says it is clear NYC mayor used a different standard for Jews when he singled them out for blame over social distancing.
Baltimore Jewish Life: Bill de Blasio needs to apologize and fast, rabbis say
DeBlasio’s singling out Jews as an ethnic group is repugnant.
The Jewish Star: Orthodox slates post gains in Zionist vote
“Our motivation was to protect the holiness of the Land of Israel, and cultivate traditional Jewish practices and beliefs,” Rabbi Pesach Lerner, president of the Coalition for Jewish Values and leader of the Eretz HaKodesh slate.
NJ Jewish Link: WZC US Elections Reveal ‘Tectonic Shift’
“Our motivation was to protect the holiness of the land of Israel and cultivate traditional Jewish practices and beliefs,” said Rabbi Pesach Lerner, president of the Coalition for Jewish Values and leader of the Eretz HaKodesh campaign.
San Diego Jewish World: Pollard case recalls two women’s bipartisanship
In America, the Orthodox Union, Agudath Israel, and the Coalition for Jewish Values, have asked President Trump to lift his parole on “humanitarian grounds.”
Baltimore Jewish Life: Rep. Betty McCollum’s Tweet and Comments “Flatly Anti-Semitic,” Rabbis Say
“It is hard to find a more concise demonstration of anti-Semitic rhetoric cloaked in ‘Palestinian rights’ advocacy than this tweet,” said Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, Eastern Regional Vice President of the CJV.